Rev. Richard Cizik

The death of Trayvon Martin ought to provoke some righteous indignation. Not just from the folks who turn out in Manhattan and Florida, where protests are occurring, but from the white evangelical community in pulpits throughout the country.

True, not all the facts are known, and a number of witnesses...

The fierce backlash from some evangelical Christian leaders to President Obama's sensible decision to cover contraception services under the health care reform law brings to mind Groucho Marx's definition of politics: "The art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies."

Christian mega-pastor Rick...

Looking back on last week's International Day of Peace, I can't help but reflect on a headline that recently caught my attention: "World Spending on Nuclear Weapons Surpasses $1 Trillion Per Decade."

The source of this information, a recent report from the co-founders of Global Zero, Bruce Blair and...

Dear Vice President Cheney:

As one of those Americans who voted for you in two elections, the excerpts from your new book and recent interviews you've given remind me of what has caused me the most regret. You sullied the good name of the United States of America around the...

Former Senator Mark Hatfield (R-OR), who died at 89 years of age, was a hero to many of us who consider ourselves "New Evangelicals."

My first occasion to hear him speak was in 1970, the graduation ceremony at Fuller Theological Seminary. It was a contentious political...

Dear Mr. President:

Congratulations on the release of your new memoir, Decision Points, which helps me, as one of your supporters in two elections, to process your presidency. I would like to ask you a question if I may.

You write in your memoir...

The findings are shocking: evidence of the involvement of U.S. military and intelligence health professionals in performing experiments, without consent, on detainees in the custody of the U.S. following September 2001.

A report released this month by Physicians for Human Rights details cruel and degrading treatment of detainees that...